Phyna’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Otabor, have lamented their daughter’s neglect after winning the BBNaija reality show last year.

Mr. Otabor, a professional hearse driver, said he hadn’t seen Phyna since she won the show. He said she asked him to do away with all his old cars, promising to change his life, but she hasn’t returned to keep her promise.

“I sold all my four cars because at the time, my daughter won the show. I thought that God had finally answered our prayers. I called her on the telephone, and she said God has blessed us. She asked me to do away with all my old cars, or she would give them out to Aboki, any day she returned. 

So, instead of allowing her to dash out my cars to scavengers, I decided to sell them as scraps and used the proceeds to renovate my house. And that was the beginning of my suffering. I stopped doing my business because I had no car again. 

And my neighbours thought I was either stingy or pretending as if my daughter just won a N100 million grand prize. I was the Vice-Chairman of our association, but when I couldn’t show up at our station for some time, they replaced me with another person.

From that moment, things started getting tough for me. I am even looking for somebody that will give me a car on hire purchase. I need help, it has come to that point/. I don’t want to die in silence,” Mr. Otabor said.

Mr. Otabor said he doesn’t know why Phyna is snubbing them, adding that he doesn’t know his daughter’s whereabouts.

When contacted, according to Vanguard, she didn’t answer her calls at first. Later, she returned the calls, but it was almost like a quarrel. And when a question was posed to her, she immediately dropped the call and never picked it up again.